Friday, May 31, 2013

Last
month, after writing my posting on self-love, I
decided to embark on my own 30 days of self-love.During these 30 days (and a bit more), I used
my morning meditation/Gratitude routine to embed this sense of self-love into
my life.I would meditate on self-love
and also listen to affirmation CDs.

For
most of my mediations, I listened to The Chopra Center 21-Day Meditation
Challenge™ - Life Wisdom Trilogy, the Love CD.This was a meditation program that I learned about after taking the
Oprah and Deepak 21 Day Meditation Challenge-Perfect Health.That was an amazing program, that I’m so
grateful that I learned about. For my
affirmations, I used Louise Hay’s work.If
you haven’t been introduced to Louise Hay and her wonderful affirmation CDs, I
highly encourage her CDs such as, “Self Esteem Affirmations” which has a lovely
array of affirmations set to music that fills you with love and peace about
yourself.I used Louise Hay’s affirmations
on a daily basis, usually in the mornings but sometimes during the day.

Throughout
the day I used affirmations such as, “I love myself,” “I am worthy,” “I am so
grateful to be me,” or a simple “I love you,” and filled myself with as much
Gratitude as I could while saying this.When self-critical thoughts come up, I would say one of the affirmations
and fill myself with Gratitude.When
undesirable situations came up, I would tell myself, “I love you,” and feel
grateful for being me.One of exercises
from The Magic by Rhonda Byrne, Day
27, The Magic Mirror, requires you to say “thank you” whenever you get in front
of a mirror.I did this as well.Instead of focusing in on some of my
undesirable physical qualities, I took the time to say thank you for being
me.I loved it.

Other
things that I did was treated myself to some of my simple pleasures.It had been a couple of years since I last
did this, but I made a homemade lavender-peppermint sugar scrub.I love the scent of lavender, which as an essential
oil, has a calming and relaxing effect.I soaked myself in a warm bath (and I’m normally a shower type of girl)
and used the body scrub.I also had a
professional massage, something that again, I hadn’t done in years.

The
self-love I practiced felt really good.And I noticed over time that people started to respond to the self-love
that I was giving.People were smiling
at me and giving me compliments.Normally, I get nice compliments, in particular since I’ve integrated
Gratitude into my life, but now that I was targeting Gratitude into love for
myself, the love that I was seeing in my outside world seemed at a higher
level.A couple of people asked me why
am I always so happy.When you’re
emitting love of self, others can feel that love and they respond.And as you’re showing love for yourself, your
point of attraction changes.As a result
you begin to attract people and circumstances that match this new love
vibration.

It is interesting that some of my most simple
pleasures, I hadn’t done in years.This
30-day self-love practice taught me that I should treat myself with loving
kindness all the time.It also taught me
that my thoughts of Self need to reflect the same love and Gratitude that I show
others.I have ended my 30-day self-love
practice, but I am so much more careful with my thoughts of self and learning
to be more loving to myself.I think in
the near future, I may resume the practice and perhaps make it a 90 day or 120
day practice, just to really spearhead my results.At the moment though, I’m thinking of a few
other 30-day practices I may want to embark on next.I got this idea for doing different 30 day
practices from the article 30 Days to
Success by Steve Pavlina.If you
haven’t visited StevePavlina.com, his site is a great resource for self-improvement
articles.

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Every moment is a gift—and the recognition of this is Gratitude. My journey with Gratitude started on March 6, 2012 when I began doing the 28-day Gratitude exercises from The Magic by Rhonda Byrne. At the time, I was adjusting to life challenges that had me emotionally drained, was trying to remove myself from a living situation rut, and needed a breakthrough with my then current job. Gratitude transformed all of those issues, transformed my life. As I learned from The Power and The Magic by Rhonda Byrne, Gratitude is a loving and powerful energy, a Law of Nature. Soon after I began living in Gratitude, I was experiencing its power day-by-day. When you give Gratitude, you receive so much more to be grateful about.
This blog is inspired by The Power and The Magic by Rhonda Byrne. I am so grateful for both life-changing books. When you open yourself up to Gratitude, you are embarking into a personal relationship with the Divine. I am still learning about Gratitude and ever growing closer to the Divine as each day of living in Gratitude passes. This blog chronicles the love, joy and delight of living in Gratitude.

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